outskirts

/ ˈaʊtˌskɜːts /

plural noun

1. (sometimes singular) outlying or bordering areas, districts, etc, as of a city

Example Sentences

Up to 540 single, male asylum seekers will be temporarily housed at an army training camp on the outskirts of Crowborough for about 12 months, according to the latest Home Office details.

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But what comes next for the crucial refinery on the outskirts of Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Burgas is uncertain.

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On reaching the outskirts of the capital, Patna, the team found a ramshackle setup of a dozen metal drums - part of a makeshift apparatus fermenting jaggery, a type of cane sugar, into country liquor.

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Securing investment from as far as London, he constructed paper mills in the desert outskirts of Los Angeles County.

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She had fled to Mogadishu's outskirts, living in a makeshift home, and leaving her farm abandoned for eight months.

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Related Words

• periphery